The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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Character is higher than intellect.Ralph Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless it is not loving it has no ulterior and divine ends but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
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